It’s not amazing news, but I think Fukuoka is the city with the highest ratio haidresser’s/person in the whole world: you can even find one shop in each of the four corners of a crossing (I’m not exaggerating!). I don’t think this has been proven statistically, but I would stick my neck out for it and challenge anyone to prove I’m wrong. What is more, I didn’t come to this conclusion on my own: my teacher here told me about it soon after I came to Fukuoka ("Alex, did u notice how many hairdresser’s there are in Fukuoka? I have lived in Tokyo and this is way beyond comparison!"). And if she says so, after all those years of experience behind her…